Features

The plans on offer at SiteGround are to straightforward and packed with features. Their shared, cloud-based and dedicated hosting options are competitively priced and offer a few perks that you might not find elsewhere.

* As a rule, “unlimited” in the context of shared hosting generally denotes “limitless until you negatively impact server performance, at which point you may be billed or transferred to a more costly service tier.”

**The “Startup” plan includes support for a single site per account.

User account management for shared hosting plans is handled by cPanel. These plans also include a standard 30-day money-back guarantee.

Cloud-based Hosting Features

Your own virtual server, with:

Processors ranging from single to quad cores, running at 2.0 GHz

Up to 4 GB of dedicated RAM

Up to 150 GB of storage space

Up to 5 TB of monthly traffic

Up to 2 dedicated IP addresses

Total root access for your server

Cloud-based optimization and for greater flexibility and expandability

*The Performance Booster service is an additional $50 each month and comes in a variety of packages designed to optimize performance for eCommerce, blogging and content delivery, and incorporates the SuperCacher service.

Free priority support with an average response time of 15 minutes or less

*The Performance Booster service is an additional $50 each month and comes in a variety of packages designed to optimize performance for eCommerce, blogging and content delivery, and incorporates the SuperCacher service.

If you choose a dedicated hosting plan, you’ll get all the features of the lower two tiers, plus the features specific to dedicated hosting plans.

Like the other plan tiers, dedicated hosting accounts are covered by 30-day money-back guarantee.

Benefits Breakdown

The Good

SiteGround is unabashedly geeky in its self-proclaimed mission to bring “handcrafted” hosting to its customers. Its combination of robust features with readily-customized plans and speedy customer support help set it apart from its peers.

The company also gets high marks for including high-end “perks” like CDNs and free daily backups (with no hidden fees for multiple restores) with its basic plans and offering powerful “geek tweaks” like Performance Booster and staging environments with its high-level plans.

The Not-So-Good

SiteGround’s most powerful dedicated hosting package has just a six-core processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a mere 1 TB of available storage (configured in a Redundant Array of Independent Disks, or RAID).

This is most likely plenty of power and storage for most clients (and the Performance Booster add-on may mitigate any potential deficiency), but because this plan offers less than half the speed, RAM and storage of top-level servers offered elsewhere, be sure you’re getting enough machine for your money if you choose a dedicated plan.